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27-15-53
Section 27-15-53 Requirements for death master file comparisons. (a) An insurer shall
perform a comparison of its insureds' in-force life insurance policies, annuity contracts,
and retained asset accounts against a death master file, to identify potential death master
file matches of its insureds. Such comparison shall be completed by January 1, 2019. Thereafter,
an insurer shall maintain a program designed to compare each such policy, contract, or account
with a death master file no less frequently than every three years, it being the intent that
insurers fashion a program that best fits their business systems while at the same time protecting
consumers by assuring reasonable checks are being performed to identify unreported deaths.
For those potential death master file matches identified as a result of a death master file
comparison, the insurer shall do all of the following: (1) Within 90 days of a death master
file match: a. Complete a commercially reasonable effort, which shall be...
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27-15-52
Section 27-15-52 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORT. The plans, processes, or procedures necessary to confirm
the death of the insured, contract owner or annuitant, or retained asset account holder against
other available records and information and, as applicable, to locate the beneficiary or beneficiaries
or other person entitled to payment pursuant to the terms of the policy or contract which
have been developed by each insurer and submitted to and approved by the department. (2) CONTRACT.
An annuity contract. The term contract shall not include an annuity used to fund an employment-based
retirement plan or program where the insurer is not committed by terms of the annuity contract
to pay death benefits to the beneficiaries of specific plan participants. (3) DEATH MASTER
FILE. The United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File or any other database
or service that is at least as comprehensive as...
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27-19-105
Section 27-19-105 Regulations for long-term care policies; outline of coverage, policy
summary, and monthly report. (a) The commissioner may adopt regulations that include standards
for full and fair disclosure setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for
the sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent
conditions of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents,
preexisting conditions, termination of insurance, continuation or conversion, probationary
periods, limitations, exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement,
recurrent conditions, and definitions of terms. Regulations under this subsection should recognize
the developing and unique nature of long-term care insurance and the distinction between group
and individual long-term insurance policies. (b) No long-term care insurance policy may do
any of the following: (1) Be cancelled, nonrenewed, or otherwise...
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27-14-19.1
Section 27-14-19.1 Electronic delivery of property or casualty insurance policy. (a)
As used in this section, each of the following words shall have the following meanings:
(1) DELIVERED BY ELECTRONIC MEANS or ELECTRONIC DELIVERY. Any of the following: a. Delivery
to an electronic mail address at which a party has consented to receive notices or documents.
b. Posting on an electronic network or site accessible via the Internet, mobile application,
computer, mobile device, tablet, or any other electronic device, together with separate notice
of the posting which shall be provided 1. by electronic mail to the address at which the party
has consented to receive notice or 2. by any other delivery method that has been consented
to by the party. (2) PARTY. A recipient of any notice or document required as part of an insurance
transaction, including, but not limited to, an applicant, an insured, a policyholder, or an
annuity contract holder. (b) Subject to the requirements of this section,...
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27-42-5
Section 27-42-5 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
ACCOUNT. Any one of the three accounts created by Section 27-42-6. (2) AFFILIATE. A
person who directly, or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled
by, or is under common control with another person on December 31 of the year immediately
preceding the date the insurer becomes an insolvent insurer. (3) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama
Insurance Guaranty Association created under Section 27-42-6. (4) CLAIMANT. Any insured
making a first party claim or any person instituting a liability claim. The term does not
include a person who is an affiliate of an insolvent insurer. (5) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner
of Insurance of the State of Alabama. (6) CONTROL. The possession, direct or indirect, of
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether...
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27-1-17
Section 27-1-17 Limitation periods for payment of claims; overdue claims; retroactive
denials, adjustments, etc.; penalties. (a) Each insurer, health service corporation, and health
benefit plan that issues or renews any policy of accident or health insurance providing benefits
for medical or hospital expenses for its insured persons shall pay for services rendered by
Alabama health care providers within 45 calendar days upon receipt of a clean written claim
or 30 calendar days upon receipt of a clean electronic claim. If the insurer, health service
corporation, or health benefit plan is denying or pending the claim, the insurer, health service
corporation, or health benefit plan shall, within 45 calendar days for a written claim and
30 calendar days for an electronic claim, notify the health care provider or certificate holder
of the reason for denying or pending the claim and what, if any, additional information is
required to process the claim. Any undisputed portion of the claim...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus
Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with
all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple
states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted
and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject
to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any
law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted
Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another
State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a)
As used in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them
as follows: (1) CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association,
limited liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State
Licensing Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is
neither a. organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains
its principal place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has
maintained a permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous
years shall not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor
continues to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging
to the contractor which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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27-34-37
Section 27-34-37 Annual statements - Valuation of certificates; reserves. (a) As a part
of the annual statement required under Section 27-34-36, each society shall, on or
before March 1, file with the commissioner a valuation of its certificates in force on December
31 last preceding; provided, however, that the commissioner may, in his discretion for cause
shown, extend the time for filing such valuation for not more than two calendar months. Such
report of valuation shall show, as reserve liabilities, the difference between the present
midyear value of the promised benefits provided in the certificates of such society in force
and the present midyear value of the future net premiums as the same are in practice actually
collected, not including therein any value for the right to make extra assessments and not
including any amount by which the present midyear value of future net premiums exceeds the
present midyear value of promised benefits on individual certificates. At the option of...
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16-44B-1
Section 16-44B-1 Compact. ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove
barriers to education success imposed on children of military families because of frequent
moves and deployment of their parents by: A. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children
of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty
in the transfer of education records from the previous school district(s) or variations in
entrance/age requirements. B. Facilitating the student placement process through which children
of military families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling,
sequencing, grading, course content or assessment. C. Facilitating the qualification and eligibility
for enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic,
and social activities. D. Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families.
E. Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of...
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